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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · 2d

Benny and Estelle about talking about malaria and cyclones on Wednesday 8th at 12:00 EST: duke.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Club EvMed - Extreme Weather and Malaria Control. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · 26d

dof.princeton.edu/faculty-deve...

Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows

We encourage early career scholars to pursue a career in academia by supporting their postdoctoral work at Princeton

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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Aug 17

with a wonderful commentary: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Teaching right from wrong: Developing a model of early immune education

Early immune education mechanisms remain poorly understood. A new PLOS Biology study develops a mathematical modeling framework to provide mechanistic insights into how the infant immune system learns...

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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Aug 17

New paper from Burcu - working towards describing 'immune education' journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A model of early-life interactions between the gut microbiome and adaptive immunity provides insights into the ontogeny of immune tolerance

The developing immune system must learn which microbes to tolerate and which to resist, but how this process unfolds is unclear. This study develops a mechanistic mathematical model of early-life gut ...

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Benny Rice, PhD @bennyrice.bsky.social · Jul 17

Out today in Science: Our work on tropical cyclones and malaria in Madagascar. Work inspired by many and done in collaboration with many www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Vaccination to mitigate climate-driven disruptions to malaria control in Madagascar

Extreme weather is common in high malaria burden areas and is likely to increase in severity owing to climate change–related severe weather events. Yet, data on infection rates after these events and ...

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Fidy Rasambainarivo @fidydvm.bsky.social · Jul 18

Excited, surprised and proud to share the news about my @MaxwellHanrahan Award in Field Biology! The award recognizes my work in infectious disease ecology and wildlife conservation in #Madagascar. To learn more about the award: www.maxwell-hanrahan.org/programs/fie...

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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Apr 7

Princeton EEB Scholars program now open eeb.princeton.edu/graduate/eeb...

EEB Scholars Program

The 2024 EEB Scholars Program application is now open and will close on June 15th, 2024.As part of efforts to increase the diversity and accessibility of graduate studies in ecology and evolutionary b...

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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Mar 1

One led by Gugulethu Moyo (www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/gugulet...): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Getting ahead of human-associated microbial decline in Africa: the urgency of sampling in light of epidemiological transition

Evidence is growing that human-associated early-life microbial diversity modulates health over the long term, via effects in the infant termed ‘immune…

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Simon Cauchemez @scauchemez.bsky.social · Feb 11

Simplicity is a key strength of the package: it only takes a few lines of code to run and compare different types of models! Dev by Nathanael Hoze, with contributions from Marga Pons, @jessmetcalf.bsky.social, @mtwhite.bsky.social, @hsalje.bsky.social.

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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Feb 3

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Revealing trends in measles immunity during periods of varying measles circulation in Madagascar

Abstract. Estimating the durability of immunity from vaccination is complicated by unreported re-vaccination, and unobserved natural infection or reexposur

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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · Jan 29

If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!)

royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society

This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

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Alexei Maklakov @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social · Dec 24

Great to see it almost in print! - I wrote a Ch. on Evolution of Lifespan and Ageing

Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · Dec 23

In press for 2025 - I wrote Ch 23.

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MIDAS Network @midas-network.bsky.social · Dec 12

The Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar position in the research group of Prof. Ayesha Mahmud.
For more info, visit: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04716

Postdoctoral Scholar Employee - Demography

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Dec 9

Senior Postdoctoral Research position open in EEB Princeton puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Nov 28

Discussing new results on similarities in how viruses fight back, with @bkoskella.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k8Cq5Eb0R...

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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · Feb 21

I'm excited to be able to share this analysis of rubella transmission in Nigeria that was developed with NCDC and USCDC thanks to an enormous effort by both to do a HUGE national-scale sero-survey using archived sera from 2018.

The impact of sub-national heterogeneities in demography and epidemiology on the introduction of rubella vaccination programs in Nigeria

medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences

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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Dec 1

Princeton's Centre for Health and Wellbeing seeking a visiting research scholar with expertise teaching epidemiology: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · Nov 10

Can anyone put me in the direction of a paper that synthesizes microbiome diversity across systems? Do we have any idea how variable the number of taxa in microbiomes is? I feel like I have seen this graph in a presentation but I’m not sure if there’s a publication looking at this. Thanks!!!!

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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Oct 31

Princeton EEB and HMEI are hiring (Assistant, Associate, or Full Prof) - we are seeking a broad thinker in the area of biodiversity puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Oct 12

Relative abundance data can misrepresent heritability of the microbiome

...new work by Marjolein Bruijning with @bkoskella.bsky.social microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Oct 5

Post-doctoral position on remote sensing and plant pathogens open: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Oct 5

Chance to spend time in Berlin thinking - the Wissenschaftskolleg just wonderful - applications open for early career scientists:
www.wiko-berlin.de/fellow-werde...

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Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Oct 3

Tomorrow!

Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Sep 25

Princeton-EEB search in ecology, evolution, and behavior: The search committee will be hosting a webinar Q&A about the position(s) on Wednesday, October 4, at 12 p.m. EDT (princeton.zoom.us/s/95659402367). No registration is required

Jessica Metcalf @jessmetcalf.bsky.social · Sep 24

Princeton EEB is hiring: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...